Dr.

Chisa UMEMIYA

This presentation provides a framing of the COP28 official side event, entitled "Bottom-up Approach of Regional Non-State Actors (NSAs) towards Updating NDCs in Post-GST" by IGES, West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), University of Technology Malaysia (UTM), Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities...

The Forest Declaration Assessment is a continual and collaborative process achieved collectively by civil society organizations and researchers. Since 2015, the Forest Declaration Assessment has published annual updates on progress toward global forest goals. The Japanese case study in the 2023 Assessment Report provides a very brief snapshot of...

Transitioning to the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) under the Paris Agreement (PA) from the current measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) arrangements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) requires developing countries to enhance their national reporting systems in a sustainable way. There are...

2023年9月8日、パリ協定第1回グローバル・ストックテイク（GST）の技術的フェーズの成果の集大成である統合報告書が国連気候変動枠組条約事務局より発表された。統合報告書とは、2021年末からこれまで約2年をかけて実施された、17万ページを超える情報インプットの分析及び3回の技術的対話の結果を17個のキー・ファインディング（主要な結果）に凝縮、まとめたものである。中でも、政府のみならず、企業、自治体、NGO、大学等の様々な主体（以下、非政府主体）の重要性にも焦点が当てられたことは注目すべき点である。本稿では、今後期待される非政府主体の役割りについてコメントを述べる。

This policy paper and submittion to the first Global Stocktake (GST), highlights the potential contributions of non-state actors (NSAs) in the follow-up period of GST1, and presents recommendations to governments to unlock and maximize these opportunities. It draws lessons from our experience in developing the Independent Global Stocktake (iGST)...

This summary report outlined the events that transpired during the official launch of the Independent Global Stocktake (iGST) Southeast Asia (SEA) regional hub on May 16-18, 2023 in Manila, Philippines. During the three-day event, non-state actor (NSA) representatives from the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Timor...

National monitoring of forests is essential for tracking progress towards various global environmental goals, including those of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement. Inconsistent national definitions of “forest”, however, can complicate the tracking of global progress towards achieving these goals. The FAO’s...

Since the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2021, global society, including Asian countries, has entered the phase of how to implement a long-term transition roadmap to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Given vital needs for the development in many Asian countries, a...

The objective of this paper is to identify relevant indicators and highlight the current availability of data to support collection of indicators for measuring and evaluating transparency capacity under the GST. It is fair to question, why after all these years of international capacity-building do many countries, particularly developing countries...

森林宣言評価は、森林に関するニューヨーク宣言（2014）や森林と土地利用に関するグラスゴー首脳宣言（2021）などの国際宣言で定められた世界目標への進捗を評価する市民社会主導の独立した取り組みである。転換と劣化の脅威にさらされている生態系に対して、地球規模の気候と生物多様性の目標を達成するため、2022年の本レポートは、森林生態系に焦点を当てている。本レポートは、森林の包括的目標、持続可能な生産と開発、森林資金および森林ガバナンスの4章で構成されており、森林の世界目標を達成するための効果的な知見を提供する。「我々は順調に2030年に森林の世界目標を達成できるか？」 本翻訳はForest Decalration Assessment Partners 「Forest Declaration...